Jeff Sandquist

Last summer our oldest daughter was married and I had the awesome responsibility of saying a few words at the wedding reception to the newly married bride and groom. I do a fair amount of speaking in my job as an Evangelist at Microsoft, but this was a very different talk. After a lot of [...]

Photo Credit: Sweet Juniper I miss blogging. I know a number of people have written over the last few months that with the rise of social networks like Twitter and Facebook, that people are blogging less. This isn’t about that. This about the lack of story telling or opinion in many of today’s personal tech [...]

I joined Twitter on December 24th, 2006 and it has been wonderful to see the service grow. In the beginning I used it mostly via text messages as a way to help keep track of friends while we were travelling together. It was great for helping find out where friends were going out to dinner [...]

This year I’ll celebrate eleven years at Microsoft. In September of 1996 I maxed out a credit card to relocate from Estevan, Saskatchewan to Redmond, Washington joining up with Microsoft as a contractor. As a contractor I didn’t qualify for relocation benefits, but I figured it was a worthy risk .  My first job was to support [...]

Photo credit: Jani Helle Betsy’s recent post “What makes it a community” made me think about my own experiences running communities and the approach that I like to take. Community has been part of my life for the past 20 years.  My first experience was with a homebrew Bulletin Board called The Nutwork that ran [...]